MkLinux: Getting Started[an error occurred while processing this directive]: Preparations

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Getting Started[an error occurred while processing this directive]: Preparations


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Partitioning New Disks

There are three partitioning programs included on this CD. Each has its strengths and weaknesses when applied to the task of partitioning your disk for MkLinux. These differences are discussed below. However, before we begin, it is important that you understand some of the basic concepts of disk partitioning on Macintosh systems.

Whether you realize it or not, your system disk is already partitioned. Most of the space on your disk is probably allocated to one partition that contains a large Mac OS volume. There are several smaller partitions, however, which hold other bits of information:

There is exactly one "Partition Map" partition which holds the partitioning information itself.
There is probably at least one "Driver Partition" which enables Mac OS to access the Mac OS volumes on the disk.
There may be a "Patch Partition" which has been used to store patches to the Mac OS operating system.
Finally, any "free" space must be accounted for in other partitions.

Partitions are contiguous areas on your disk.

File Systems are data structures that exist inside partitions.

The Mac OS Standard (also known as HFS) and Mac OS Extended (also known as HFS+) volumes are two types of filesystems that may exist in partitions.

If you open a volume on your desktop and see something like "353.3 MB in disk 844.7 MB available", the 844.7 MB is unused space inside that Mac OS filesystem. The message does not refer to free partition space. To find out if you have free partition space on your disk, you will need to use a tool (such as a partitioner) that looks at the actual partition map. Below is an example of a partition map taken from FWB HardDisk Toolkit.

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